Regular columns by RIEA

«Laws and unmarked frontiers remain…unwritten laws… And thus when frontiers are decided the adversary is not simply annihilated; indeed, he is accorded rights even when the victor’s superiority in power is complete. And there are, in a demonically ambiguous way, ‘equal’ rights: for both parties to the treaty it is the same line that may not be crossed.»1Walter Benjamin

UrbaNomad Per-Johan DahlTitle: UrbaNomad | Place: Oslo School of Architecture Department of Information Technology, Norway | Type: event | Author: Guy Lafranchi, Per-Johan Dahl | Date: October 1 to 3, 2002
Description: The UrbaNomad workshop was one in a line of workshops conducted by RIEA, following the Taormina workshop (Aug 2001) and the Lund workshop (Oct 2001). It gathered a design studio for a limited period […]
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SplitterLars KordetzkyTitle: Splitter | Place: Vienna 48° 12′ 29.99″ N, 16° 22′ 23.03″ E | Type: Project | Author: Lars Kordetzky | Date: 1996
Description: “The three pairs of towers form a triangle around the downtown core of the city […] and […] represent the last defensive wall of the 20th century in the city of Vienna. However, the wall is perforated, reduced to points, invisible, and has an entirely different orientation from the preceding ones. […]
————————————————————————————————————————————–The Wall GameCorrado CurtiTitle: The Wall Game | Place: Israel-Palestine Border, 31°47′0″N 35°10′0″E | Type: Project | Architect: Lebbeus Woods | Date: 2004
Description: Lebbeus Woods elaborated this project for a transformation of the Israeli-Palstinian Wall in 2004. It is a further exploration in the series of proposals by Lebbeus Woods for re-interpreting the archetype of the wall […]
————————————————————————————————————————————–Terra Nova – DMZCorrado CurtiTitle: Terra Nova – DMZ | Place: North-South Korea Border, 38°36′48″N 128°22′0″E |Type: Project | Architect: Lebbeus Woods | Date: 1988Description: The Terra Nova project was commissioned in 1988 by Kyong Park, at the time Director and Curator of the Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York, for the Project DMZ exhibition, described as […]
————————————————————————————————————————————–Radical ReconstructionCorrado CurtiTitle: Radical Reconstruction | Place: Sarajevo 43°52′0″N 18°25′0″E |Type: Project | Architect: Lebbeus Woods | Date: 1997Description:The work by Lebbeus Woods collects a series of drawings and writings exploring a visionary proposal for reconstructing the city of Sarajevo, severely damaged during the siege that took place from 1992 to 1996 during the war that tore apart former Jugoslavia […]
————————————————————————————————————————————–1Walter Benjamin, ‘Critique of Violence,’ in Reflections, trans. Edmund Jephcott (New York: Schocken
Books and Random House, New York, 1989).